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We're finally getting our gay X-Man, former Alpha Flight member Northstar:
quote: "He is a new addition, and yes, we'll be dealing with his sexuality. It won't be a central theme, but he is who he is, and it will have an impact on things ... relationships, attitudes, conflicts.”
...and they are totally dropping the ball! It's bad enough that they will gloss over his sexuality, but it's worse that they chose to include a gay character more notable for being a caricature of a vain swishy asshole than anything else...
In other, faintly disturbing news, Mark Millar is working on a new Youngblood project with Rob Liefeld. Mark has this to say about Rob and his art:
quote: “Because I love his [Liefeld’s] art and I wanted to do something with the Bad Boy of comics...Getting into bed with perhaps the most controversial creator in the medium is something else altogether and I just liked the challenge. "
- on why he took the assignment
“I told Rob I'd make Youngblood the hottest launch of the summer and I wasn't kidding. I'd love to tell you what the high concept is, but I'm just too pleased with it to leak it this early. Let's just say that, when it hit me, I just laughed out loud, phoned Bryan Hitch and Frank Quitely to show off, and then took the rest of the day off.”
That last bit just baffles me - surely Mark is bragging to them about the concept and not that he's working with a vastly inferior artist, right? Or was he going for some kind of irony that an American boy like me just can't begin to fathom?
[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Raised By Wolves ] |
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